Chris Lindland of Lindland’s Cordarounds asked us to take a look at his “Reversible Smoking Jackets,” available online for $155 plus shipping. As jackets they’re just dandy, especially when the brocade liner peaks out around the collar or tails. As a smoking jacket… I dunno. A bit of a gimmick and somewhat antithetical to the spirit of the smoking jacket, which should be founded in opulence itself. Besides, where can you wear smoking jackets these days besides the deck of your yacht as you traipse up to your hyperbaric chamber on the backs immigrant laborers stacked like so much cordwood?
I’d wear it but not as the smoking jacket, I’m saying.
I do wish I had found your shop earlier this summer, Chris. These green seersucker pants are fantastic.
Oh, damn it. I just realized your shopping cart doesn’t let me link right to products. Fix that!
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Or rather, I <3 those seersucker trousers.
Folks. If you dig the pants or jackets, we’re putting out a new set of cargo pants and brushed pebble cotton Cordarounds next week. The seersucker stuff will hang around the site through the end of Oct. By then, it should pretty much be sold out.
-Chris
Chris Lindland
Purveyor, Pants
http://www.cordarounds.com
incredibly stupid stuff at http://www.cordarounds.com/blog
So, what you’re saying is… One side is Dapper, one side is Crapper?
I encourage you to never think that this is stylish.
A little factoid about jacket sewing: if you get into things like liners and inner details, it only costs about $4 more to make a jacket reversible. Just has to do with the stitching and a couple details. We started by only making the satin brocade as a liner, then realized that it could have another, albeit ridiculous, utility. A couple stitches and an inner skull button and–voila– reversibility. In the end, it will be about as utile as the hood on hoodies, but an odd option that some folks will dig.
-Chris
Chris Lindland
Purveyor, Pants & Jackets
Cordarounds.com
Note the glowing crotch orb in the “Our Labs” section of our site. Important stuff.
this is a clever (yet complicated) jacket. it is in no way a smoking jacket however. sounds like a lazy copywriter to me.
As a two man company, copywriting and everything else is left up to the designers. So perhaps the lazy copy is due to our having to make stuff and maintain a website. Alternatives included unleashing your inner pimp or (if a dragon print was employed) relasing your inner Shogun. But those concepts seemed a bit tired, so we went with the smoking jacket theme, which is decidedly less violent. If there are other liner concepts we missed, I’m all ears.
If you’re interested in smart (and/or ultra stupid) copy, you can find it in the blog at cordarounds.com
-Chris
Try as I might, I’m unable to locate the glowing crotch orb. Oh well.
Anyway, I like the jacket (right side out only, of course) but you know what I don’t like? Labels. Obvious insignia of any kind advertising the maker of my clothes. Polo ponies, tigers, swooshes. Big, distracting red squares. I am not a billboard.
You can find the glowing crotch orb by visiting the main site, cordarounds.com, and clicking on the “Our Labs” tab. There, you will unliock all the secrets to our fashion technology.
As for the logo, we place red corduroy in somewhere on every item we produce. Since we have a markerting budget that’s infinitely smaller than the makers of swooshes and polo ponies (about $300/month). An evil multinational conglomerate has to start somewhere, and we’re starting with mini red swatches on pants and jackets.
-Chris